archiveSeptember 2019

Nigeria has lost about $10 billion (about N3.6 trillion) over the past five decades in non-oil export opportunities in crops such as cocoa, oil palm, cotton and groundnut alone. The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria Export Import Bank (NEXIM) Mr Abubakar Bello, stated this while delivering a keynote address...

  Says: the noise we hear are last gasps of our nation's defeated foe REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PROF. YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN, GCON, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, AT THE 59TH INDEPENDENCE DAY INTERDENOMINATIONAL CHURCH SERVICE, AT THE NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CENTRE, ON THE 29TH OF SEPTEMBER, 2019...

    As Nigeria celebrates its 59th independence, an Economist, Dr Chijioke Ekechukwu, has advised the Federal Government to give priority to agriculture in budget allocation, policies and decision making. Ekechukwu, a former Director-General, Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), gave this advice in an interview with News Agency...

As Nigeria celebrates 59 independence anniversary on Oct. 1, a Professor of Chemical Enginnering,. Okechukwu Ukwuoma, has identified absence of venture capital market as one of the challenges in the Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) sector. Ukwuoma, Director-General of National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM), said this in an interview...

As Oyo holds church service for 59th independence   Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, said on Sunday that his government is strong on welfare issues because of his determination to turn around the standard of living in the state. According to a statement signed by Chief Press Secretary to...

  The South African Government will finalise a clear economic growth strategy within the next few weeks, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday as the country aims to boost confidence in an economy facing lower growth and job cuts. In the first of his weekly messages to the nation known...

    The Presidency on Sunday said there is no truth in media reports of an attempt to whittle down the powers of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo by some power brokers in the Presidency. Speaking on Channels Television programme: ‘Sunday Politics’ Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and...

  The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 23, 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar, on Monday said all is not well with Nigeria. The former Vice President, in his message on Nigeria’s 59th Independence Anniversary,  said the nation’s founding fathers could never have fathomed that 59...

  The Federal Government has re-arraigned Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of Sahara Reporters and the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), before a Federal High Court in Abuja, a week after a court ordered his release. Sowore alongside his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare, were brought to the court by...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday said it rejected 14 invalid submitted nominations by political parties for the Nov. 16 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa. Mr Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee, in a statement issued in Abuja also disclosed...